Issues in Democratic Consolidation: The New South American Democracies in Comparative Perspective

by Scott Mainwaring and Guillermo O'Donnell

Book Overview

Since 1974 there has been an unprecedented wave of democratization in the world. This trend has been particularly extensive in South America. But the problems confronting these new democracies are staggering, and the prospects for building consolidated democratic regimes are far from uniformly good. Focusing primarily on recent South American cases, Issues in Democratic Consolidation examines some of the difficulties of constructing consolidated...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0268012105
• ISBN13: 9780268012106
• Release Date: March 1992
• Publisher: University of Notre Dame Press
• Length: 366 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.2" x 9.2"